Most writers are not quick-witted when they talk. Novelists, in particular, drag themselves around in society like gut-shot bears.

True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.

We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be.

There is a tragic flaw in our precious constitution, and I don't know what can be done to fix it. This is it: Only nut cases want to be president.

I want to stand as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all the kinds of things you can't see from the center.

He didn't look like a soldier at all. He looked like a filthy flamingo.

Any reviewer who expresses rage and loathing for a novel is preposterous. He or she is like a person who has put on full armor and attacked a hot fudge sundae.

Perhaps I am the turtle, able to live simply anywhere, even underwater for short periods, with my home on my back.

About astrology and palmistry: they are good because they make people vivid and full of possibilities. They are communism at its best. Everybody has a birthday and almost everybody has a palm.

We are here on Earth to fart around. Don't let anybody tell you any different.

Enjoy your body, use it every way you can. Don’t be afraid of it, or what other people think of it, it’s the greatest instrument you’ll ever own.

Pray, which day is not a women's day!?!

People’s mind becomes their boss and torments them. So what would become of the one who believes he can be the boss [control] of the mind of others?

Believing in everything at the same time is the same as not believing in anything at all.

You can run and run as fast and as far as you like, but the truth is, wherever you run, there you are.

I may not be Einstein but I know dumb plus dumb equals you.

Those who of old were good practicers of Tao did not use it to make people bright, but rather used it to make them simple.

One of the things that made me persist in the Antarctic in the face of sickening discouragements was my determination to name a portion of the earth's surface after my father.

[Chris Evans] is doing an amazing job with "Captain America." I really enjoy those films as well so that's kind of pretty much where that was.

The illusion of life is crucial for the work, otherwise the ideas wouldn't be able to jump across, people wouldn't engage with it.

Feminism is an attack on social practices and habits of thought that keep women and men boxed into gender roles that are harmful.